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Following are some articles available on the Internet related to issues for Turkish Politics that were interesting with views of their respective authors.

Does Prime Minister Erdoğan Accept Turkish Secularism?
Middle East Quarterly
Spring 2007

Can There Be an Islamic Democracy?
Review Essay
by David Bukay
Middle East Quarterly
Spring 2007

Who Owns Kirkuk? The Turkoman Case
by Yücel Güçlü
Middle East Quarterly
Winter 2007

Will Turkey Have an Islamist President? (Türkçe)
by Michael Rubin
AEI Middle East Outlook
February 2, 2007

Green Money, Islamist Politics in Turkey
by Michael Rubin
Middle East Quarterly
Winter 2005

Talking Turkey
She's a democracy - no qualifiers
by Michael Rubin
National Review Online
August 6, 2004
 
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